im·pul·sion

(ĭm-pŭl′shən)

1. The act of impelling or the condition of being impelled: "I do not move ... unless it be under the impulsion of a third party" (Samuel Beckett).

2. An impelling force; a thrust.

3. Motion produced by an impelling force; momentum.

4. A wish or urge from within; an impulse.

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impulsion

(ɪmˈpʌlʃən)

1. the act of impelling or the state of being impelled

2. motion produced by an impulse; propulsion

3. a driving force; compulsion

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im•pul•sion

(ɪmˈpʌl ʃən)

n.

1. the act of impelling.

2. the resulting state or effect.

[1400–50; late Middle English < Latin]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	impulsion - a force that moves something along drift, impetus force - (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration"
	2.	impulsion - the act of applying force suddenly; "the impulse knocked him over" impetus, impulse drive, driving force, thrust - the act of applying force to propel something; "after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off"

Translations

impulsion

[ɪmˈpʌlʃən] N → impulsión f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

impulsion

n (lit: = act of impelling) → Antrieb m; (lit, fig: = driving force also) → Antriebskraft f; (fig) (= impetus) → Impuls m; (= compulsion) → Trieb m, → Drang m

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impulsion

[ɪmˈpʌlʃ/ən] n → impulso

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It is acted upon by three independent forces: the resistance of the air, the attraction of the earth, and the force of impulsion with which it is endowed.

"True," replied the president; "but we will overcome that, for the force of impulsion will depend on the length of the engine and the powder employed, the latter being limited only by the resisting power of the former.

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At length I was clear of my dangerous neighbour, and just as I gave the last impulsion, my hands came across a light cord that was trailing overboard across the stern bulwarks.

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He had discovered, besides, since his departure from Chateaubriand, that nothing would be impossible for Furet under the impulsion of M.

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By its own power of impulsion our apparatus made a canal for itself; some times carried away by its own impetus, it lodged on the ice-field, crushing it with its weight, and sometimes buried beneath it, dividing it by a simple pitching movement, producing large rents in it.

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At this time of their watch, the water close to them would be often agitated by some impulsion given it from a distance.

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The interests of this school are in general philosophy and the philosophy of the sciences, rather than in psychology; they have derived a strong impulsion from James, but have more interest than he had in logic and mathematics and the abstract part of philosophy.

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Every one, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place on the social ladder, and is beset by stormy passions and conflicting interests, as in Descartes' theory of pressure and impulsion. But these forces increase as we go higher, so that we have a spiral which in defiance of reason rests upon the apex and not on the base.

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He felt her firmness and obeyed the impulsion at once, just as the other two men had, a moment before, obeyed unquestioningly the wave of her hand.

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Later on, when each developed individuality and became personally conscious of impulsions and desires, the attraction of the light increased.

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Reagissant a cette reception le directeur charge de la gestion de l'Agence, Mohamed Salem Charkaoui a soulige qu'il s'agit d'[beaucoup moins que]un geste Royal a meme d'imprimer une forte impulsion a l'action de l'Agence Bayt Mal Al Qods Acharif[beaucoup plus grand que].

SAR le Prince Heritier Moulay El Hassan recoit les enfants d'Al Qods - ALBAYANE